Shrinkage Methods for Estimating the Shape Parameter of the Generalized Pareto Distribution

Table 1

Descriptive statistics of the monthly mean temperature of Ghana.

Data		Min.	Max.	Mean	St. dev.	Skewness	Shapiro-Wilk
Temperature	1417	24.033	31.134	27.260	1.492	0.350	0.971 (>0.01)
Fire claims	2167	1.000	263.250	3.385	8.507	18.750	0.197 (>0.01)